Topics

The recent arrests of two Army recruiters in Osceola County charged with having sex with a 17-year-old girl highlight a nationwide pattern of sexual misconduct by military recruiters. The recruiters, Christopher Doner, 30, and John Back, 33, started having sex with the Harmony High School student last spring and continued for eight months even after each asked her to stop having sex with the other, records state. "She said they had sex many times, anywhere between 20 and 30 times during a few months period," Detective Cole Miller wrote in the arrest affidavits. "She did not want to stop talking to either suspect … they would often make excuses at work to meet up...

Related "Military Justice" Articles

The recent arrests of two Army recruiters in Osceola County charged with having sex with a 17-year-old girl highlight a nationwide pattern of sexual misconduct by military recruiters.
The recruiters, Christopher Doner, 30, and John Back, 33, started...

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba A military judge has lifted his restraining order and is once again allowing female prison guards to touch an alleged war criminal while moving him between Guantanamo's most clandestine prison and legal...

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba The military judge presiding at the USS Cole death-penalty trial ordered the Pentagon to replace the senior official and his staff overseeing the war court process, ruling that a since-revoked requirement for judges to...

A military judge ordered the Defense Department Monday to replace the overseer of war crimes tribunals at the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, declaring that his ill-fated attempt to accelerate the cases amounted to unlawful influence. The judge,...

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba A military judge has lifted his restraining order and is again allowing female prison guards to touch an alleged war criminal while moving him between Guantanamo's most clandestine prison and legal appointments. ...

A new rule that required military judges presiding over the war crimes tribunals at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to relocate to the remote installation has been rescinded, the Pentagon said Friday. The Department of Defense official who...

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba In an abrupt retreat Friday, the Pentagon withdrew an order to war court judges to take up residence at this remote base, the Miami Herald has learned. The order has stirred controversy since Deputy Secretary of...

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba In an abrupt retreat Friday, the Pentagon revoked an order to war court judges to drop their other military duties and take up residence at this remote base until their cases are over. The 9/11 case judge swiftly...

A military judge ordered an immediate halt Wednesday to proceedings in the Sept. 11 terrorism case because of a new Defense Department rule that requires him to relocate to the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The judge, Army Col. James Pohl, has been...

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba The 9/11 case judge on Wednesday froze pretrial hearings in the death-penalty case over a controversial Pentagon order requiring the judges to move permanently to this remote outpost until their cases are over. Army Col....

WASHINGTON The nation's highest military court has forged new law by reversing the conviction of a former enlisted man at McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita, Kan., who was charged with aggravated assault for not telling his sexual partners he was...

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba A military judge on Monday called the top Pentagon official overseeing the war court to testify on why the Defense Department suddenly ordered judges to move down to this remote base until they've wrapped up complex...

WASHINGTON The Obama administration is seeking to block a federal judge's ruling last week that halted programs intended to grant deportation waivers to up to 5 million immigrants living in the U.S. illegally. The motion, filed Monday in the U.S....

An appeals court on Wednesday struck down the terrorism conviction of Australian David Hicks, reversing one of the few successful prosecutions of a prisoner before a U.S. military court at the Navy base at Guantanamo Bay. The U.S. Court of Military...

The criminal case against a Marine accused of deserting his unit in Iraq a decade ago began taking shape when Navy criminal investigators assumed the worst about the Muslim corporal based on hearsay from other service members, a defense attorney argued...

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba A defense lawyer for an alleged 9/11 plotter said Thursday that his Saudi client had been rectally abused while in CIA custody and that he continues to bleed now, at least eight years later. Attorney Walter Ruiz made...

A military judge allowed the Sept. 11 war crimes case to proceed Wednesday over objections from defense lawyers alarmed at the discovery a courtroom interpreter previously worked at a CIA "black site" where detainees were subjected to brutal...

Texas lived up to its reputation for swift justice by taking just three days to seat a jury for the trial of the man charged with killing the former Navy SEAL depicted in "American Sniper." But jury selection in two other major U.S. cases is...

WASHINGTON Machinist's Mate Fireman Nancy L. Castillo was already in hot water with the Navy when she was busted near Bremerton, Wash., for suspected drunken driving. What didn't happen next has now brought Castillo's case all the way from...